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Caveman's Reflective Essay: The Art Of War

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Some say that humanity's concept of combat was introduced by a caveman who created a spear with merely a rock and branch, but the disciple of the worlds strongest martial artist had to disagree. His opinion was that the concept for combat had long been ingrained into humanities very core. In his view, the creator of humanity's way of combat wasn't the caveman who created the spear, but the caveman who started to use his limbs to fight. It was that prehistoric man who created the concept of weakening an opponent through combat, he was the man who changed us from animals that only knew how to charge and bite our prey to the people we are today. The caveman who created the spear after that was actually the one who used the method created by …show more content…

He wasn't acting like his usual self at all. Five years ago, he remembered the anger John showed after he escaped from this place called his home, the viciousness John displayed as he seriously tried to take his life. He remembered his first meeting with John at the orphanage that was created by his nations government, the crimson red colour blood of the people he once called his friends, and how he became a killing machine from that day forth. "I lived happily as I created my own Personal Hybrid Martial Art." Alex replied with a dazzling smile. John suddenly looked at Alex with a frown, he didn't say anything, but the meaning in his eyes were clear. His eyes were asking him the same thing, the same thing he had asked him five years before, it was a look that asked him how could he be happy after murdering those he held close. Alex's expression stiffened, before the smile in his eyes turned cold, but he didn't say anything in response to his masters gaze. Instead, he looked back into John's eyes with clear ridicule. "I remember that it took you seventeen years to create that Chaotic Dragons Unorthodox Art of

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